Re: [PATCH] by request: base64 for bytea

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:55:46PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

> > Attached is a patch (including documentation this time :) containing two
> > functions, base64_encode(bytea) and base64_decode(text) with obvious
> > functionality.

Btw, there are functions in form encode(data, 'base64'),
decode(data, 'base64') in contrib/pgcrypto. They do also
encode(data, 'hex'). In the future I need to do probably
encode(data, 'pgp-armor') too...

I agree those functionality should be in core code, and if
the Alex ones get there, maybe he could use same interface?

Or I can extract it out from pgcrypto and submit to core ;)
I simply had not a need for it because I used those with
pgcrypto, but Alex seems to hint that there would be bit of
interest otherwise too.

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marko